A unique and distinctive culture emerges from the Burning Man experience. Rooted in the values expressed by the Ten Principles, this culture is manifested around the globe through art, communal effort, and innumerable individual acts of self-expression. To many, it is a way of life.

bj lotion wrote: your prob all old and have nothing better to do than look forward to a bunch of dirty naked freaks every year.. your lucky its gotten a bit trendy and there are some pretty college girls there so you can dream while your fat wives wait 4 you in boring middle america...

Since you brought it up... ask anyone who's met us, my girlfriend is pretty hot. You'll have to find another way to make those of us that pull our own weight look like the dickheads!

GreyCoyote: "At this rate it wont be long before he is Admiral Fukkit."Delle: Singularly we may be dysfunctional misfits, but together we're magic.

Hey thirt33n maybe me, you, and all the rest of the fire performers that attend should ask the whole city for free tickets so they can enjoy our "work"....

Last year was my first year.... and i paid my way...Dude seriously now.... This year again I bought my own ticket, arranged and am helping pay share of the fuel expenses of a ride up there and also bought all my gear ( i.e. new tent, backpack,costumes, etc...), food, water, booze for a small bar, fuel for preforming, plus some gifts, lots of glowing stuff and doing it all on a very small military paycheck.... all while also helping my mom back home with some expenses, saving some money for getting out of the military ( August 22nd is my terminal leave date and sept 7th is my EAS for those who know what i talking about) also saving small bit for a backpacking trip with my girlfriend after the burn and paying my bills.... so if i can do all of this with getting about only 1,500 a month then i am sure working a normal real world job and being an awesome DJ you could make it as well... hell i am sure there are people there who make less then i do and still make there own way and do lots of cool stuff for people and dj while out at the burn and don't ask for free tickets..... if anything use your DJ skills at a local club or burn and sell some CD'S of your tracks to make some money to help buy a ticket.... This year i am asking two camp mates to help me out by bringing a bike and a cooler for me but that is because i will be going backpacking in the Canadian Rockies with my girlfriend ( she is already working up in Canada) after the burn and would not have any place to store a cooler and a bike after the burn...

There are a few of them still being sold on the 2008 tickets section.... I just got mine for $250... sorry that the previous owner of the ticket could not attend though she was very nice and seemed like a cool person): . I am sure you could find one for that same price if you just look.... also craigslist is a great resource i found a few on there in my area as well as Tribe... ( when ever it decides to actually be up from one of its many maintenance periods.)

" Holy shit did that just fucking happen"
....anything is possible in the wacky land of imagination

...funky- i must inform all that my avatar is not actually me. a fire performer I am not,....although sometimes i'm on fire!! (it's a pic i took in jamaica when i was a kid)
yeah, next year all participants will get free tickets from the 78 spectators

your summer is looking pretty good from here on out funky!!
..almost so is mine.

there ya go.... tickets for sale did the work of looking for you.... cheap as well only $458 for the two of them.

as for thirt33n that is a really cool photo even if it is somebody else.... i have a few of me but can't figure out how to shrink them down small enough to make an avatar out of one of them since all of them ( the whopping 4 i have of me doing it) were taken with a very nice Canon camera on high resolution setting, i can't shrink any of them down small enough to get everything i want in the photo into the small amount of pixels that the avatar size requires.... any help figuring out my delima would be greatly appreciated:) if anything will put up a link later

You know what I hate about my canon? (Or maybe it's about my MacBook.) When I take pictures sideways the camera somehow "knows" and they upload into the computer with the down side down, but when I upload to the web they are sideways. I tell you, sometimes the tech is so sharp it will cut itself. Or at least cut me.

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

Funky Monkey Mech- good job finding those tickets for the DJ .
only a couple issues there...

(1) He don't want just 2 tickets, he wants 3 tickets (so go find another one)(2) He does not want to buy them. He wants you to "gift" them to him, along with "sponsorship" of him and his bros. (read free camp & supplies)

But its all cool, cuz he'll play some really great tunes (??) for you & your camp (when he's not busy).

Hmmm. I don't think SB is anywhere near the top of the list for any STD. SF, CA is tops for syphilis, I think Richmond, VA ranks #1 for the clap, and I think Mississippi, Rhode Island and Louisiana rank tops for chlamydia (it is not a flower). For cryin in a bucket kids, "No glove, no love!"

Luckily, I am old, fat, wrinkly with a mid-western wife and I can only do a dozen or so pull ups, 4 or 5 dozen ball pushups, and only about 400 bicycle situps, so I don't need to worry about that that love thing. I mean who wants to have sex with the fucking fat-ass crypt keeper anyway?

Funky Monkey Mech wrote:( August 22nd is my terminal leave date and sept 7th is my EAS for those who know what i talking about)

It must be one big-ass chasm to straddle between active military culture and Burning Man. Thank you, congratulations, and welcome home!

-chris

Yeah it is bigger then ya think.... i think it would help if there were more burners in the military... i know of a few like pink daddy and the ones on the burning military tribe.... but other then that military is sorta like a giant bunch of frat boys..... they all look at me like i am a fucking nut job all the time, and always are like ha ha ha look at the crazy hippy, they always make fun of the way i look at things and say how certian thing are artistic, they say i am gay all the time because i hang out with men who are gay, i have nothing agents gay people but yeah the military is full of homophobic people who assume you are because of association, and I am on just about every "random" drug test.... people calling me a freek cause i fire breath... yeah i really really miss being around more burners and love when i finally get off work and can get away from base and be with more of the local burner community....

i think you might wanna change your "show" name.
you just tanked. plus, like a majority of show names, it's pretty bad, but you're obviously still a kid so you'll learn. by the time you're 26 you'll have a different name.

Funky Monkey Mech wrote:( August 22nd is my terminal leave date and sept 7th is my EAS for those who know what i talking about)

It must be one big-ass chasm to straddle between active military culture and Burning Man. Thank you, congratulations, and welcome home!

-chris

Yeah it is bigger then ya think.... i think it would help if there were more burners in the military... i know of a few like pink daddy and the ones on the burning military tribe.... but other then that military is sorta like a giant bunch of frat boys..... they all look at me like i am a fucking nut job all the time, and always are like ha ha ha look at the crazy hippy, they always make fun of the way i look at things and say how certian thing are artistic, they say i am gay all the time because i hang out with men who are gay, i have nothing agents gay people but yeah the military is full of homophobic people who assume you are because of association, and I am on just about every "random" drug test.... people calling me a freek cause i fire breath... yeah i really really miss being around more burners and love when i finally get off work and can get away from base and be with more of the local burner community....

met a newbie on leave from afghanistan a couple years ago..seemed right at home. wonder if theirs some odd connection between the insanity of war and the insanity of Burning Man..AND!! Im NOT comparing Burning Man to actual combat! Just both seem surreal..in different ways.

Funky Monkey Mech wrote:( August 22nd is my terminal leave date and sept 7th is my EAS for those who know what i talking about)

It must be one big-ass chasm to straddle between active military culture and Burning Man. Thank you, congratulations, and welcome home!

-chris

Yeah it is bigger then ya think.... i think it would help if there were more burners in the military... i know of a few like pink daddy and the ones on the burning military tribe.... but other then that military is sorta like a giant bunch of frat boys..... they all look at me like i am a fucking nut job all the time, and always are like ha ha ha look at the crazy hippy, they always make fun of the way i look at things and say how certian thing are artistic, they say i am gay all the time because i hang out with men who are gay, i have nothing agents gay people but yeah the military is full of homophobic people who assume you are because of association, and I am on just about every "random" drug test.... people calling me a freek cause i fire breath... yeah i really really miss being around more burners and love when i finally get off work and can get away from base and be with more of the local burner community....

No offense to the military but there is a reason there is so much weirdness about gays in the military.
It's because there is nothing MORE homosexual than the military.
A bunch of men camping together and running around with machinery and weapons doing manly things with other men.